From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 20:41:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AB71065695 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3fd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8748FC12 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p18KfTOo024291 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:41:35 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk p18KfTOo024291 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1297197695; bh=s0jKCrTZQ8avr5DeS8wxhlGJJW8+AxrJE4ktISIJc+4=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc:Content-Type:Date:From:In-Reply-To: Message-ID:Mime-Version:References:To; z=Message-ID:=20<4D51AA6A.60701@infracaninophile.co.uk>|Date:=20Tue ,=2008=20Feb=202011=2020:41:14=20+0000|From:=20Matthew=20Seaman=20 |User-Agent:=20Mozilla/5.0=20(Mac intosh=3B=20U=3B=20Intel=20Mac=20OS=20X=2010.6=3B=20en-US=3B=20rv: 1.9.2.13)=20Gecko/20101207=20Thunderbird/3.1.7|MIME-Version:=201.0 |To:=20Paul=20Schmehl=20|CC:=20FreeBSD=2 0Questions=20List=20|Subject:=20Re: =20FreeBSD=208.1=20as=20a=20Virtualbox=20Guest=20OS|References:=20 |In-Reply-To:=20|X-Enigmail-Version:=201.1.1|OpenP GP:=20id=3D60AE908C|Content-Type:=20multipart/signed=3B=20micalg=3 Dpgp-sha1=3B=0D=0A=20protocol=3D"application/pgp-signature"=3B=0D= 0A=20boundary=3D"------------enig320A80287BB8F9C1F0F82081"; b=ycrd16g0vlIk0d+G2OF7PD+ggpaKSPVVB6egrs2mHwlOINvih+J14iub4nkETrQ/N vtX5aMgswLMyGBPGIyUFATELp+9utA2NAgWhVH7IqvZiJVY9LYjbFrmQ5tul16w0Zq nrd4ECuwpMVnym3DEJo5zMzyucguphzulcpQO3c0= Message-ID: <4D51AA6A.60701@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:41:14 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Schmehl References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig320A80287BB8F9C1F0F82081" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.5 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.1 as a Virtualbox Guest OS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:41:41 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig320A80287BB8F9C1F0F82081 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/02/2011 15:33, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD VM in Virtualbox. The host OS is Mac OS = X > 10.6.6. I'm already running Windows 7 64 bit with no problems. When > you setup a new VM, you get a first time startup scenario that asks you= > to point to a file (iso usually) that contains the setup program for th= e > OS. Then, when you boot the machine, setup begins. Works for me on much the same kit. As I recall, you need to play with the CPU etc. settings a bit to find some combination that will boot. Let's see... OS Type FreeBSD (64 bit) As much RAM as you want One CPU Enable PAE/NX VT-x/AMD-V Enabled Nested Paging Enabled Enable IO APIC Hardware clock in UTC time Enable absolute pointing device IDE Controller --> CD/DVD SATA Controller --> HardDrive.vdi Most of these aren't mandatory other than (I think) IO APIC, but I can't remember for sure. I went the whole hog and installed this VM with ZFS as the root filesystem, which works well enough, but isn't really particularly clever as the VM only has 1GB RAM. It's great for testing the v28 ZFS patches though. > That's not working for me. I've tried both the disc iso and the dvd is= o > without success. I haven't tried it, but I assume that if I burned the= > iso and popped it in a box that I would get the setup menu and be able > to install the OS. You can just save the .iso to your Mac's hard drive -- I created a directory ~/Library/System-Images -- then use the VirtualBox media manager to "mount" the .iso into your VM. I'd use the DVD .iso simply because it has more stuff in it. Since you're not constrained by the capacity of a physical drive, there's no reason to use anything smaller. 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